TREE NEWS reports: Circle minted $1.5 billion USDC on Solana in the past 24 hours through six transactions of $250 million each. Year-to-date in 2026, Circle has minted a cumulative $110.51 billion USDC on Solana. The minting reflects continued issuance of the stablecoin on the Solana network.
Circle Mints $1.5B USDC on Solana in 24 Hours, $110.5B Year-to-Date
The scale of Circle's Solana issuance — six uniform $250 million mints in a single day — points to programmatic, institutional-grade demand rather than organic retail flow, suggesting large counterparties are pre-positioning liquidity on-chain. For Solana, this reinforces its role as a settlement rail for stablecoin-denominated activity, a positioning that matters to DeFi protocols and treasury managers who rely on deep USDC liquidity. The open question is whether this issuance pace reflects durable transaction demand or momentary balance-sheet reshuffling; year-to-date totals alone cannot distinguish between the two.
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